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Frenchman Quits ISIS Because He Couldn’t Handle Its Smoking Ban
National Review ^
| 11-14-2014
| Katherine Timpf
Posted on 11/24/2014 6:56:58 PM PST by smoothsailing
November 24, 2014 11:27 AM
Frenchman Quits ISIS Because He Couldn’t Handle Its Smoking Ban
Flavien Moreau said he even tried Nicorette, but it didn't work. By Katherine Timpf
A French militant who was recently sent to to prison for his involvement with the Islamic State said he left the terrorist organization because he couldn’t handle its strict ban on smoking cigarrettes.
“I really struggled with not smoking,” 27-year-old Flavien Moreau testified before a Paris court, according to France 24.
“It was forbidden by the katiba [a group of Islamist militants]. I had brought Nicorette gum with me, but it wasn’t enough. So, I left my gun with my emir and I left,” he said.
Moreau was given the maximum sentence for his crimes, seven years.
The Muslim convert became radicalized in France and traveled to Syria to join the Islamic State in 2012. He had had 13 previous convictions, including armed robbery and assault.
Unable to quit smoking, he left the terrorist group after a mere two weeks. He was arrested in France in January 2013.
— Katherine Timpf is a reporter at National Review Online.
TOPICS: Extended News; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: cigarettes; isil; isis; nicotine; smoking; tobacco
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To: smoothsailing
LOL! It’s an insane world out there Charlie Brown.
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posted on
11/24/2014 6:57:55 PM PST
by
FlingWingFlyer
(Remember! When the GOP wins, it means the stupid American voters want bipartisanship.)
To: smoothsailing
He couldn’t quit smoking those awful Gaulois?
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posted on
11/24/2014 6:58:23 PM PST
by
Catmom
(We're all gonna get the punishment only some of us deserve.)
To: smoothsailing
So in other words he surrendered to his addiction.
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posted on
11/24/2014 6:59:51 PM PST
by
GrandJediMasterYoda
(Not all Muslims are terrorists but all Muslims are potential terrorists.)
To: smoothsailing
No issues with rape, mass murders and taking slaves though...
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posted on
11/24/2014 6:59:51 PM PST
by
2banana
(My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
To: smoothsailing
Every good Muslim knows a smoker is terrible at beheadings ...
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posted on
11/24/2014 7:01:13 PM PST
by
spodefly
(This is my tag line. There are many like it, but this one is mine.)
To: smoothsailing
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posted on
11/24/2014 7:01:43 PM PST
by
GrandJediMasterYoda
(Not all Muslims are terrorists but all Muslims are potential terrorists.)
To: smoothsailing
So he changes his mind in joining a group of radical Islamists because he cannot smoke. A puff of smoke versus a false ideology whose goal is world conquest in the name of a false god named “Allah.” My my, the things we hold dear......
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posted on
11/24/2014 7:03:43 PM PST
by
Fungi
To: smoothsailing
Damn those non-smoking rules on airplanes!
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posted on
11/24/2014 7:04:05 PM PST
by
Rodamala
To: smoothsailing
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posted on
11/24/2014 7:04:44 PM PST
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: smoothsailing
The French are good at being failures at everything.
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posted on
11/24/2014 7:06:18 PM PST
by
ConservativeMind
("Humane" = "Don't pen up pets or eat meat, but allow infanticide, abortion, and euthanasia.")
To: smoothsailing
But mass beheadings and crucifixions are okay, right?
To: smoothsailing
Well, that’s OK, I refuse to visit France because I cannot stand the stench of cigarette fumes and unwashed Frogs!
To: smoothsailing
If ISIS required deodorants, he never would have signed up to begin with.
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posted on
11/24/2014 7:27:01 PM PST
by
TruthShallSetYouFree
( When dems win, it's a mandate. When we win, we must compromise.)
To: smoothsailing
Just one more thing the left in this country has in common with the terrorists. Killing innocents is ok, but smoking?
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posted on
11/24/2014 7:27:05 PM PST
by
logic101.net
(How many more children must die on the altar of gun free zones?)
To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
If you like your beheadings, you can keep your beheadings...
But smokes? FUGGEDABOUTIT!!!
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posted on
11/24/2014 7:27:13 PM PST
by
smoothsailing
(Mel Kaminsky for President!!!)
To: smoothsailing
Couldn’t last without his Gauloise Blondes eh? It would have been a lot better if he had of worked out he really was French and not an Arab murderer before he left to kill people!
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posted on
11/24/2014 7:28:43 PM PST
by
melsec
(There's a track, winding back, to an old forgotten shack along the road to Gundagai..)
To: Fungi
false god named “Allah.”
No, not false, just another name for Satan.
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posted on
11/24/2014 7:28:54 PM PST
by
logic101.net
(How many more children must die on the altar of gun free zones?)
To: GrandJediMasterYoda
So in other words he surrendered to his addiction.Well, he is French after all...There has to be something to surrender to.
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posted on
11/24/2014 7:35:44 PM PST
by
hecticskeptic
(In life it's important to know what you believeÂ….but more more importantly, why you believe it.)
To: smoothsailing
"Frenchman Quits ISIS Because He Couldn’t Handle Its Smoking Ban"Looking for the "satire" tag...
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posted on
11/24/2014 7:36:34 PM PST
by
free-in-nyc
(Freeping from the heart of the occupation)
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